To which he could have said "OK". Would have achieved the square root of nothing and is not an approach being pursued by other clubs.

You can't sell a player unless he agrees to the move so how could Broughton have decided for himself that Brereton would be sold.

McCarthy was fired after losing 8 games in a row at Cardiff so needs to show that he can still manage in the modern game.

Nobody - but if we do sign somebody Les Miserables will be on here complaining he's no good.

I suspect you were criticising the club on 14 May 1995.

Parachute payment clubs have taken 2 of the 3 promotion places in each of the last 4 seasons, including both the top 2 automatic places in the last 2 seasons, usually from 5 or 6 such clubs in the division leaving one spot for the 18/19 clubs without parachute payments. This season it looks highly likely that the 2 automatic places will once again go to parachute payment clubs. The truth is that they represent a significant competitive advantage.

Undav does fit the bill.

Do you have a source for the rumour ?

There may have been other bidders - who knows ? - but based on what was being reported at the time it was reasonable to regard Venkys as the best bet , given that they were a successful publicly quoted company in India. I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would take a whole series of decisions that were obviously not in their own interests, or those of the club. As I recall, the club was up for sale for 2 to 3 years before it was sold. The only "bidders" whose names leaked in to the public domain were some alleged property magnate called Dan something who appeared to have risen without trace as nobody could find out anything about him, and another bloke who ended up being hunted by Interpol.

This doesn't makes sense. Have you been on the bottle ?

Finished 6th with Dalglish and got promoted. I was cheering.

The post was an answer to a question as to what our league position is, so obviously stated the current position. What other answer could be given ?

5th - which gets us in the play-offs. Not bad,eh ?

I don't think you've really answered my question - namely what level of funding from the owners do you think is required in addition to what they have usually provided ? We don't appear to have made a profit last year. The last available set of accounts runs to 30 June 2021 and shows a loss of £6.6m. However that is after making a profit of £13m on the sale of Brockhall - to the owners ! when they paid £17.3m for it.

You say the owners don't want to spend but the club's accounts have shown that year on year they are pumping in around £15m +/- £2m. How much more do you think should come in ?

He is showing some talent but hardly on a level that makes him immune from having a loan spell - he is certainly not as good as Harvey Elliot when he came to us - and if it is true that there is a bit of an attitude problem a spell at a club with lesser facilities might wake him up that that is what awaits him if he doesn't shape up.

Point taken although I would point out Kane was still out on loan up to a couple of months before his 21st birthday.

Players like Beckham and Kane were loaned out early in their career so that is not correct.

Correct. Can anybody imagine an impartial observer from outside looking at those running a club who have no parachute payments but have risen to third in the table clear of all the other clubs who do not have parachute payments meriting 2 out of 10 for their performance ?

As they say at Brentford and Brighton " If you've heard of them we're not interested in them".

Thanks. Look forward to that.

Anything to report ?

I doubt it. Some of the momentum behind the ESL came from the American owners of clubs who wanted to transport the US model of team sports to football. It is noticeable that the American owners of Liverpool and Manchester United are selling up as they realise that it's not going to happen.

I think Ipswich away is our ultimate bogey match.

I think the problem is that quite a few of those players are getting old together and are injury prone.